Flowchart your way through that iPad buying decision

Still not 100 percent certain about buying an iPad this Saturday? No worries, there’s a wicked little flowchart for that.

Not all of us geeks necessarily are adept at coding, but most folks know their way through a flowchart. I bet the vast majority of you possess the ability to break down any complex problem into a series of simple-to-follow branches. Non-geeks, it’s the stuff you’ve seen in high-school, they called it block diagrams at the time.

There’s a great flowchart that can help you make that iPad decision that I stumbled upon the other day at BBspot.com. As you can see from the image included below, the iPad flowchart is a lot of fun but it won’t help you reach an informed purchasing decision. No matter how you solve IF-THEN-ELSE conditions, you’ll be exposed as either drinking Apple’s Koolaid or having a hole burning in your pocket. Put simply, the chart says you needn’t purchase an iPad at all.

The iPad goes on sale at the Apple and Best Buy retail stores, with Amazon and AT&T believed to be joining the game when the 3G model debuts late April. Last week, Apple put the final piece of the puzzle in place with the completion of the iPad App Store. The company has begun accepting iPad submissions while promoting the store via a new Facebook page.

Are you tingling with anticipation as Saturday draws nearer with each passing day? Buying an iPad? Why don’t you code us your own iPad decision process in the comment section (BASIC only, please).

Speak Your Mind

Derek

10 HOME
20 PRINT “DO YOU HAVE A USE FOR AN IPAD?”
30 GET I$
40 IF I$ = “YES” THEN GOTO 100
50 ELSE IF I$ = “Y” THEN GOTO 100
60 ELSE PRINT “THEN DON’T BUY ONE!”
100 PRINT “REALLY? I DIDN’T THINK SO.”
110 PRINT “SERIOUSLY. YOU DIDN’T BUY A TABLET PC IN THE PAST, SO WHY BUY AN IPAD NOW? I MEAN, THEY LOOK COOL AND ALL, BUT THAT’S JUST NOT ENOUGH.”
120 END

hodar

People STILL don’t grasp the concept.

A Netbook is 90% Productivity, 10% (at best) leisure. This is a machine designed to run software, and utterly sucks at watching a movie, music or surfing the net. Small screen, low battery life – yet very powerful processor and OS (comparitively speaking).

Don’t want one – hey, it’s your money. But before you pooh-pooh it; maybe it would be worthwhile to educate yourself about what you are talking about.

We’re Geeks here …. isn’t learning about tech what we are all about?

John

This is like. Why buy a Rolls Royce when there are cheaper and faster options out there and with more features. Even worse is considering that Steve Jobs has demonic powers that allow him to sell any piece of junk at a high price to a lot of people. And the rest of the companies that have better devices and at affordable prices are just humans. And not interested in money at all. They work for the greater good. :D

I’m not buying either. Rather go on holidays :) I’m still loving my old laptop running Gentoo. I don’t see any other system or OS that can be as much fun.
My 81 years old gran on the other hand actually USES an iPhone. Could never do anything on a computer… Now her friends are amazed that she handles it. You know what they will probably do soon. Yes! They will soon become yet another minion of the Antichrist.